30th Lambda Literary Awards

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The 30th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2018, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2017. [1] The list of nominees was released on March 6. [2]

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Special awards

CategoryWinner
Visionary Award Edmund White
Judith A. Markowitz Emerging Writer Award Jeanne Thornton, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Trustee Award Roxane Gay

Nominees and winners

CategoryWinnerNominated
Bisexual Fiction Barbara Browning, The Gift [1]
Bisexual Non-Fiction Roxane Gay, Hunger [1]
Gay Fiction John Rechy, After the Blue Hour [1]
Gay Memoir/Biography Chike Frankie Edozien, Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man [1]
Gay Mystery Marshall Thornton, Night Drop [1]
Gay Poetry C. A. Conrad, While Standing in Line for Death [1]
Gay Romance Laurie Loft, Love and Other Hot Beverages [1]
Lesbian Fiction Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties [1]
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body [1]
Lesbian Mystery A. E. Radley, Huntress [1]
Lesbian Poetry Rosamond S. King, Rock | Salt | Stone [1]
Lesbian Romance Yolanda Wallace, Tailor-Made [1]
LGBTQ Anthology Juliana Delgado Lopera, ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants [1]
LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult Rebecca Podos, Like Water [1]
LGBT Drama Audrey Cefaly, The Gulf [1]
LGBTQ Erotica Steve Berman, His Seed [1]
LGBTQ Graphic Novel Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters [1]
LGBTQ Non-Fiction Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective [1]
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Annalee Newitz, Autonomous [1]
LGBTQ Studies Trevor Hoppe, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness [1]
Transgender Fiction Bogi Takács, ed., Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction [1]
Transgender Non-Fiction C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity [1]
Transgender Poetry Ching-In Chen, recombinant [1]

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